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Multiple choice: The "Gulag of our times" is a) Chinese labor camps; b) Castro's dungeons; or c) North Korean prisons.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
Multiple choice: The "Gulag of our times" is a) Chinese labor camps; b) Castro's dungeons; or c) North Korean prisons. Amnesty International has an answer: d) none of the above. Their 2005 report on human rights compares the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the notorious Soviet penal colonies. It also accuses U.S. leaders of war crimes, and the executive director of Amnesty International USA wants foreign governments to seize and prosecute American leaders traveling abroad. Amnesty is apparently of one mind with the International Committee of the Red Cross, an inspector of which, while visiting a U.S. detention center in Iraq, said, "You people are no better than and no different than the Nazi concentration camp guards." (Remember ...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 10, 2000 700+ words
...International Committee of the Red Cross has publicly appealed to...Lebanese armed group Hizbullah. Amnesty International calls on Hizbullah to accord...International Committee of the Red Cross. Amnesty International notes that Hizbullah has...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly June 18, 2009 700+ words
...said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director...Tamil Tigers (LTTE). Amnesty International continues to receive...including the UN and the Red Cross (ICRC). Amnesty International acknowledges the importance...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 22, 1999 700+ words
...October 1998, Amnesty International delegates interviewed...authorities by Amnesty International, an inspection...Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in October...the soldiers. Amnesty International accepts that the...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 27, 1999 700+ words
...Committee of the Red Cross. In 1997 Ahmad Muhsen 'Ammar wrote to an Amnesty International group: "We have...see people from the Red Cross. When I received...and now I am 30." Amnesty International, International Secretariat...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 17, 1999 700+ words
...and Ethiopia, Amnesty International today cautiously...charge or trial," Amnesty International said. "Ethiopia...Committee of the Red Cross access to both...war. However, Amnesty International is concerned that...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 11, 1999 700+ words
...Colombia -- Amnesty International regrets death of...Public statement Amnesty International expressed today...Committee of the Red Cross near BP Amoco...east Colombia. Amnesty International has repeatedly...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 1, 1999 700+ words
...Schurmann-Zeggel, Amnesty International's Australia...calls for help. Amnesty International has met with senior...Committee of the Red Cross visits to Solomon...humanitarian relief," Amnesty International said. "Yet there...
- Lebanon/Israel -- Amnesty International welcomes Khiam releases, calls for...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire May 24, 2000 700+ words
...Lebanon/Israel -- Amnesty International welcomes Khiam...RDATE:23052000 Amnesty International today welcomed...Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). "At...and injustice", Amnesty International said. "We are...